Shopping Spree, Trips Highlight Sertoma Auction

November 15, 1985|The Morning Call

A five-minute shopping spree at the remodeled Shop Rite on Lehigh Street, Allentown, a baseball personally autographed by the 1985 World Series winners, the Kansas City Royals, and two trips to Bermuda are among the 640 items up for bid at the 30th annual Allentown Sertoma Club's auction.

The auction is scheduled from 5 p.m. tomorrow to 1 a.m. Sunday in the Mack Trucks Auditorium.

More than $30,000 worth of new merchandise has been donated by businesses in Lehigh, Northampton and Berks counties.

"We hope to raise $25,000," said Dick Paules, auction co-chairman. "We're giving a special push this year because of the 30th anniversary."

The majority of the auction proceeds will benefit the Lehigh Valley Area Retarded Citizens with a small portion going toward the club's local speech and hearing projects.

The auction will be broadcast on Channel 69 until 7:30 p.m. when the station has to break away for a Philadelphia Flyers hockey game. Twin County Cable Channel 11 and radio station WKAP will then pick up the broadcast. At about 10:15 p.m., Channel 69 will again begin showing the auction, and the event will be broadcast simultaneously on the three stations.